What does it mean that a manufacturing facility reduces, reuses and recycles?
The manufacturing process can be one of the primary sources of pollution for a piece of furniture. Manufacturing facilities can reduce their emissions by following the 3R’s – reducing, reusing and recycling waste. Manufacturers are given this designation if they use the most efficient equipment available, design products to minimize waste, reuse the waste that is produced in the manufacturing process (such as using wood scraps to efficiently heat a facility) and proper recycling of waste such as batteries, chemicals and other environmentally harmful substances.
